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ESTABLISHED 1855 YORK. S. C., TIJESDAY, >TOVK~M.B-'Elt 13, 191i>. . ^ NO. 90
VIEWS'AND- INTERVIEWS
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She Wants to Know.
The conversation at the dinner table
in a Yorkville home the other day ran
to fried chicken and the mistress of
the home proudly said that she still
had a few fryers left out of the summer's
consumption of the frying kind.
Finally the youngest lady of the house
interrupted with the inquiry: "Mother,
can't you fry any kind of chickens except
frying-size chickens?"
Lot of Sugar.
"There is a lot of sugar in this section,"
said E. L. Wood, merchant of
Filbert, a few days ago. "But it is in
the hands of private families who were
? provident enough to buy it some time
back. 4when sugar was more plentiful.
Lots of people in this section bought
then and bought in large quantities?
100 pounds, barrels and all of that.
People in the country are not complain- I
ing very much about the shortage of;
sugar. It is people in the towns who
are complaining."
May Plant Pecans.
"Now that College street residents in
Yorkville have decided to widen their
streets and have consented to the digging
up of the elms, there is some discussion
of what may follow after the
asphalt is down and the change is
made," said Mr. R. S. McConnell, prom
inent merchant or xorKvine an evening
or two ago. "It has been proposed
to set out pecan trees along the street
after the new paving is done although
of course the matter has only been discussed.
Wonder how it would do to set
out pecan trees and then after they
got to growing good, change the name
of the street to Pecan Avenue?"
No Worry About Price.
"No, people are not worrying about
the prices that are being asked
for merchandise especially women's
, , ( t tLiqgs," said a young woman, a j
well known saleslad^ la the employ of'
a Yoikvllle store in reply to a querry !
the other evening. "A colored man and
his wife came into our store the other i
day after merchandise?dress goods, j
cloaks and all that kind of thing. The '
saleslady who waited on them sold j
them $235 worth of merchandise before I
they left. There was no haggling over
the price of anything. Another colored !
man ramp into the store the other i
morning. He was hunting a coat for |
his daughter, a girl some 8 or 9 years !
old. There was one he liked which j
was priced at 118.50. He paid without j
a murmur."
Mail Carriers Hard Hit.
"This ever advancing high cost of j
living is hitting the mail carriers one j
awful hard blow," said a York county I
mai. who occasionally thinks about
other people in addition to himself. "I
certainly feel for them. You know i
their wages do not go up every time |
bacon and beans take a flight. Right
now with everything flying skyward
they are strictly up against it; that is, i
those of them who have no other in- j
come in addition to their salaries as I
mail carriers. They have to feed and j
take care of their horses out of their !
respective salaries, you know, and |
those- who use automobiles instead are j
in just as bad shape. I know it is a |
struggle for some of them to make ends j
meet."
Room for Argument.
Yorkville man was approached by a
solicitor for a church cause the other i
day and after relieving himself of $25 i
for the cause he said: "You know I ,
sometimes wonder about this matter of i
giving. It is good to give, all of the j
various causes for which donations
are sought are worthy causes; but in j
the case of an individual I sometimes
wonder where the stopping place is to
be. I have in mind a case that occurred
in York county some time ago. The I
family in question is very poor finan- j
.cially. Likewise it is very rich spiritu- |
silly, so far as giving what it has is !
concerned. Some years ago the church j
of which the mother of that family is i
connected had on a drive for some purpose
or the other. The mother pledged
to give to the church one-tenth of the j
family income. That was fine and !
noble. At the time the mother made
that gift I was paying the rent on the
vonf that covered the heads of that
family. I had been doing it two years.
And I just can't help but wonder if
the Lord wanted that family to give
one-tenth of all its income as the
mother of the family did?"
The Davidson Magazine.
"Saw a copy of the Davidson College
Magazine for November yesterday."
sa'd a Yorkville man. It is published
.monthly by the students of Davidson
Coilege and is quite a cvedi r i.ic publication.
A York county boy. Carl JaekA-on
Matthews of Clover, is business
yoanager of the publication and he is
.evidently on his job. There are several
York -county fellows at Davidson this
year and gome of them are occasional
contributors to the magazine. One of
Khe most interesting articles in the
current number is one on 'The Race
Problem.' Louis P. Good of the IJeersheba
section is the author. Discussing
the services of the negroes in the
I late World War, young Good says: 'We i
are constantly hearing: about their new j
rights from both races. We do not j
discredit what they did, on the other
hand we admire what they did. Itut j
they fought to save their homes from
the outside aggressor as we did. they I
are protected by the same flag that we j
are. Why then should their participation
in the war bring such a change?!
Because I bunked with a millionaire, I
land drank coffee from the same cup, I j
have no right to come home and pro- |
claim to the world that I deserve by
I rights of participation in the war to
be a millionaire. Neither has the col- J
ored man necessarily risen in equality i
because of his |*rticipation."
Why Not Women Also?
Itather manly militant miss who
holds a responsible position in Yorkville
and who displays an executive j
ability that would do credit to any
of her brethren which ability might be
shown were they in the same line of
work, and who is one of the brightest
among York county workers in the
[ cause for woman suffrage was speaking
on the subject the other day. She
asked: "Isn't it true that a man's
success in business depends not only
on himself but on the men lie helps
elect to office? Isn't it true that
housekeeping is woman's business and
that her success depends not only on
herself but on the way her town is
governed? Isn't it true that the control
of food, air, light, water, health, education,
morals and all living conditions
are today in the hands of the officials
of the town? Isn't it true that it is
only common justice and common sense
to let the women in the home share in
electing the men on whom the comfort
of the home depends? Isn't it true thRt
a man does not neglect his business because
he votes, and that a woman will
not neglect her home because she
votes? Isn't it true that the happiness
of a homo does not depend on the woman
always being in it. but on the kind
of woman she is? Isn't it true that in
the right kind of a home both the man's
and the woman's points of view are
needed?"
INVASION OF WEEVIL
Cotton Pest Has Now Reached Eastern
North Carolina.
On October 15 the boll weevil was
found in Columbus county, in extreme
southern North Carolina, by a governrTPttt
dhYmtiolht-fnt. Since then the i?est i
has been found in New Hanover eoun- :
tv, a considerable distance to the east.
The weather since has been warm, and j
the weevil has probably advanced still
farther. Thus in one year this great |
cotton pest has practically crossed the i
state of South Carolina and established
itself in North Carolina, the last of
the important cotton growing states to j
be invaded.
It is of course impossible to say how |
much damage the weevil will do in the j
Carolinas. However, judging from the I
experiences of other sections with j
similar climate conditions, it appears
probable that damage will be very !
heavy in the immediate coastal sec- I
lions, gradually uecrcuauitj iu n.t i
northwestward toward the mountains.
In the Costal Plain areas of both states,
cottongrowers may in wet years, particularly
following mild winters, expect
severe losses. Toe Piedmont .country,
because of its colder winters, probably
nevei will suffer as much as the Coastal I
Plain country. All parts of the Caro- j
linas have wetter summers than the ;
parts of Cotton Belt in the same lati- i
tilde to the west, and this will be a !
factor in the weevil's favor.
This greatest insect pest of all time j
is now in every cotton-producing state I
of importance, and it is difficult to see j
how cotton production is to be materially
increased unless a more ef- |
fective remedy than is at present i
known is discovered.?Progressive J
Farmer.
m
Low Down Profiteering.?The prac- i
th e of merchants in forcing persons to I
buy other articles in order to get j
sugar is justifiable, according to a i
ruling made by John Manget, chair- |
man of the Atlanta "fair-price" com- |
mittce. Such a practice lias resulted j
in grand jury indictments in other i
cities, Mr. Manget noted in his state- |
ment, made public last Friday, but 1
lie added that in his opinion "it will
not hurt any consumer and it is the I
only just way I see to relieve the situ- i
ation and avoid hoarding. The fair
price chairman added, however, that
one merchant had been reported as
making a customer buy two dollars!
worth of other merchandise in order ;
... .. iwhiin.l ,,f <in.;ir anil that nu
morons other merchants had been re- j
! ported as forcing customers in order to |
get sugar to pay advanced prices on ,
; other articles on which the price had
; not been tixed.
regard this as the meanest kind
of profiteering," he said.
?
: ? Alfred Daly was convicted in lTnitcd
| States court in Columbia, last week or
violation of the white slave act and
was sentenced to serve a year and a
; day in jail and to pay a fine of $500. !!< j
j was charged with transporting a 17-j
year-old girl from West Point, Ga., for
immoral purposes, in court he offered
to marry the girl and she appeared j
willing; hut hev father who was present
would not agree and therefore Daly!
must serve ?is time.
?,
, ? Dr. J. A Scott, prominent physician j
of Monticejlo, Fairfield county died last
Monday in a Columbia hospital, lie
J was 57 ye: \s old. j
A
LOOKING BACKWARD
P '' i(
A Retrospect Having To Do With
The Signing Of The Armistice.
EX-SOLDIER GROWS REMINISCENT.
All York County Service Men Remember
Vividly This Day?A Narrative J
of Human Interest Having to do!
With the Capitulation of the Hun. I
?How the Boys in the Camps Felt [
About it.
Py Jus. IX C.rist.
Today is the first anniversary of a
big event in the history of my young
life and the lives of some several odd
hundred other fellows who are now
hunting happy usefulness in this
county of York in various and sundr>
ways. Today is the first anniversary
of the signing of the armistice with
Germany?the end of actual physical
fighting with the Hun. I'll never forget
this day a year ago if I should
live to he as old as the town of
Yorkvllle and I haven't the slightest
desire to stay here that long. Neither
will the hundreds of other York
county youngsters, scores of whom
have directed my attention to the anniversary
(us if that were necessary)
in the last day or two. I can't say
about the situation overseas because
I didn't get over there; but judging
from what happened at Camp Sevier
which wasn't any different from any
other camp or cantonment in the
country the day that Germany announced
she was down and out, marked
the day the American army at home
went all to smash. That smash didn't
coinc because, of any exhaustion
through superior staying power of the
enemy; hut because some several hundred
thousand American, hoys having
gone to war and determined to use
their respective abilities to their utmost
in defeating an alliance which
was calculated to knock the dickens
out of everything that was, simply
came to a realization of the fact that
there was nothing more to do excepl
get hack home and make arrangements
to take up the old jobs again.
What military discipline there was ir
the Twentieth Division then stationed
at Camp Sevier and which was all set
to go across as we'l as in several (
thousand men. member&Adtf; different
camp organizations, went to the ,
douse that day.
News Spread Rapidly.
Word that Fnitz hau ceased crept |
into crimp early mat monrng iasi i
November. Every officer and every j
enlisted man knew it by eight o'clock i
and that was going some because j
many thihgs of considerable importance
happened in that old camp thut I?
were never known by more than a j
dozen people. Foreseeing trouble and
plenty of it, the commanding officer oi ,
the camp issued an order that day
that no enlisted men and very few officers
were to have leave off. The <C. '
O. might have saved his clerical fom
and his motorcycle orderlies and '
everybody else connected, all that
trouble. Before dark practically every
man in the service at Sevier was over
in the city of fSreenville, without any i
leave and not worrying about the fact. '
They took the town and the town
very wisely turned itself over to <
them. It was early on the morning 1
of the following day when the most 1
of them got back to their respective <
organizations and 1 knew a few who ] >
didn't get back for several days, dm <
to the fact that they wandered oft into
Greenville's noted dark corner after <
"celebrating fluid," and having obtain- i
ed the same in generous quantities,
and possessed of the idea that the war
was over, didn't much care if they
never came back.
Discipline Went Smash.
The military organization just j
simply went to smash. On November |
1", colonels and majors looked like j
corporals to the enlisted men and |
captains and first lieutenants didn't
i
loom up as large as corporals had
figured two days before, while most ,
second lieutenants got no consideration
at all.
K very body was talking one thing
only?'"When do we *o from here," '
and pretty nearly everybody had a 1
notion that surely it would not be '
more than a couple of weeks, evidently
having little idea for the time
being of the magnitude of discharging
10.'Hid men. Some of lis learned a
little later that it was quite a job.
I'll say we did.
Palermo Piead Permission.
I recall Casper Palermo, Antonio i
S"arvari :mii some twenty other It:ii- 1
inns, residents of n coal mining; region 1
of I'? nnsylvania, who probably had
lioen in the country all of their lives:
hut w ho, having spent their days
among their own countrymen, even in
this country, were unable to speak j
in :eh of the English language. In one
battalion at Camp Sevier there were
lOu or more of these fellows. Their
tents were placed together and their 1;
reservation came to be known as
Utile Italy. And Little Italy, despite 1
the fact that it could talk nothing but |
its native lingo, was aware that the h
armistice was signed this clay a year I
ago just ahout as soon as unyhod\j<
else. llcTore the sun was bright In 1 <
the heavens Little Italy's delegation '
including this Caspar Palermo, An-1
tonlo Scarvari and some twenty others j 1
appeared at that particular company!1
commander's door and said in broken '
English: ".Mis Captains, do war heem |
over, de armistice he si&nedi Mo war
to our homes today go." , And' tljr
exhibited visions of big bowls ?
grinned and bowed and smiled an
spaghetti and monkeys J and ban
organs?all expectant that the dif
charge would be forthcoming in
pair of minutes.
That company commander, a Vetera
of many years service in the Unite
States army, to whom the signing r
the armistice didn't mean a thin
since he was a regular who, realize
that he couldn't get ulon& half so we
out of the army as In it, wasn't i
any too good a humor as It was. an
somenow, ne completely lost conirt
of himself.
"Yes, ye wops/'^he roaret
Ye want to go home do yez? Ye
think since the show is ove&I'm goin
to git busy and butt Into,Bilker an
have him leave you go rigt|ft now wit
a pretty discharge and lotp, of'inone
and then kiss all of yer jdfrty bean
and pat ye on the back ;a<T send y
home today to ye mudder.sl wid a not
telling her dat each of yon won d
war. Like hell, ye want $fc).-go Ijonn
Hit out o' here ant if i he^lr anothe
word from Little Italy, I'll uj(nke ever
blamed one of you look like th
monkeys ye make dance on^y yez wil
be doin' the dancin' and yjez 'won't b
worried wid do music. Git out!"
And Little Italy's representative
stood before him, not understandini
a word he said and wondering whethe
he was praising them for the sacriflc*
they matte in going to war or sayin?
something complimentary about th
pope of Home. They just didn't saw;
at all. i /
Finally a lad was found who couh
speak some Italian and h* "Interprets
the commander's ultimatum. Thos<
wops turned pale beneath their darl
sl;ins. Their smiling faces be^un t(
resemble that of a child on-'circus da;
when it look's like rain and the!
headed by Gasper Palermo' jjind An
tonio Scarvari, they hiked.it back t<
the ten's of Little Italy. ItNvas mori
than three months afterward befori
the last of Little Italy lof? Cam]
Sevier. t >
.if
Pretty Tough on Soi4?<
While it was a glad daj^for mos
officers and men, it was at ttye sami
time a sad day for some?-this tith o
November past. There were^Jn th<
army at Sevier some men- who its of
liters made more money and'liver
easier than they had ever lived before.
-tnrrr-ttiey rrall.tert -flfflt tbe'^nc
of the thing meant their going back tc
the old order. There were some en
listed men who felt the same waj
about it; but not nearly so man]
among them as there were among of
fleers. MOre than one officer told mi
bis disappointment because the wai
was over. I have in mind the case o
a certain captain." "I was a traveling
salesman for a novelty house brfon
the fireworks," he said to me tha
day. "I drew $25 a week. With thii
job my monthly income is arounc
$300 a month. It is going to be tougl
to go back to that $25 and the onl)
thing I see to do is to stall as much a;
possible in discharging my men am
doing what 1 am required to do it
crder to hold on." He he'.d on ncarlj
three months longer?at least si?
woekp more than was necessary. H<
should worry. Sam waited until now
t > kick about expenditures.
But that November day saw th<
crash of the great machine that was
training. Beg and threaten, do as
they would, officers could get little oui
of their men after that. They "soldiered"
for fair. Effort was made tc
drill them harder than ever but it jupl
wouldn't work. Of course some worked,
especially the medical men bc-eaust
the flu came along about that time anc
Ihey caught the dickens because there
were around 4,000 cases of the tnaladj
in all, while more than 300 poor fellows
who lived to sec the end, were bumpec
off with it before they got ft chance
to get home and talk over camp life
with the home folks. Hut almost
everybody else just "soldiered."
At the time the curtain dropped i
was publicity director for the quartermaster
corps. It was my job to write
newspaper stories and moving picture
slides and placards and all that sort
of thing calling attention to th? fact
that the army wasn't wasting a thing
and was doing what it could to contiihutc
a little more sugar and meai
and other stuff to the folks at home
u Vin ' u i.i-i. iiinr-liitic their nlntnis Thi
stuff Hint T wrote and almost ovor>
newspaper in the south fell for some ol
it. was true so far its my knowledge
of the subject about which I war
writing, went. Hut my knowledge
didn't go far and I didn't want it to
because I had an idea then and am
firmly convinced now at least a fourth
of the foodstuff and half of everything
else that was sent to every camp a*
provisions and supplies was wasted.
Literature Wasn't Popular,
The commanding officer came over
to my office one day and told me he
wanted me to devote my energies
thereafter to writing stuff reminding
the soldiers that although the armistice
was signed the war was not over,
and to preach contentment and
patience and all that kind of stuff. I
did the best I could for awhile. 1
wrote some several hundred slogans
and advertisements and newspaper articles
ancl kept a staff of stenographers
and typewriters busy copying them
and mailing thorn out to newspaper-;
while at the same time a half dozen
printers were kept busy getting out
placards and a score or more of men
were directed to nail 'em up around
-amp.
Liut it wouldn't go. Soldiers would
I
it road the .signs and laugh anil cuss. 1
y i gave it tip when one day whije walkif
ing around camp 1 came upon a couple
d of hundred of those signs stuck undei
iC { a pile of lumber instead of on pole.-*
?i and buildings' where they might assist
n in carrying out the commander's purpose.
Thought T, "Well, if my own
n assistants arc laying down on mo, it
d is ail off."
>f And then I joined the crowd which
P was making a mad effort to get out of
d the service as soon as. possible.
11 But really after all, I was like all
n the other thousands to whom a mili
(] j tafy life doesn't appeal for a m.'nute,
on this day a year ago. When they
sprung the story that Fritz harl quit.
1. tlKn iny enthusiasm and interest and
st zeal died right dead. And I really
p wanted to do like Caspar Palermo and
(i Antonio Scarvari and the gang of Wops
h diil. I wanted to go after my pink
y slip immediately. Hut having had a
s little more experience with the Knglish
language and hardboiled officers
e and men in general 1 didn't because
0 I Knew that all I would have gotten
would have been what Caspar and
, Antonio got.
y ?
e SINKING FUND INSURANCE
II
e Makes Good Profit New and Promises
Free Protections to Public Buildings
s This letter from M. J. Miller, secreK
I tary of the Sinking. Fund. Commission
i' to John R. Hart, Esq., representing
e Yoil: county in the general assembly, is
? dated. Columbia, November 5.
e Ir. response to your inquiry as to the
y progress being made by this office in
conducting the insurance of public
1 property, I>i>eg to advise that this
1 feature of our work is in a highly satls0
factory condition at present, the last
{ session of the general assembly having
3 made several desirable changes in the
y act under which we operate.
1 It lias been the policy of the Sinking
- Fund Commission in the past to re3
frain from seeking publicity about the
? conduct of our. insurance business,
j letting the results speak for themselves,
3 but inasmuch as the legislature has
j placed the insurance of all public
! property, including the rural nchool
t i buildings of frame construction, under
2 this commission it may Interest the
f public to know just what we are doing.
- The insurance of public property by
t Via yinHntr T^nnH r'nmmlcciftn vi/n a ho.
K.-......... - "..V? ~I
gun in 1900 by taking over a small per"joentage
of the insurance on state
' *propert/.*"Later the insurance on Coun~
II ty property was taken over and in 1916
! the act was further amended as to inelude
the brick public school buildings,
'jand, as mentioned above, at the last
" session of the legislature the frame
j '
- i school buildings were included under
' the provisions of our insurance act.
r From the very beginning the business
' proved profitable and has continued to
1 j produce even greater profits as it has
1 grown and expanded. Starting without
* I resources of any kind whatsoever,- and
1 , without ^ver receiving one penny of
1 j appropriation, the commission, has met
' all losses promptly, paid all necessary
i operating expenses, and has amassed
'i assets amounting to more than one
1 | quarter of a million dollars. The law
' provides that when our assets reach
1 ! the sum of one million dollars we shall
" | cease charging premiums and carry all
| of this insurance free eff charge, the
j theory being that the income from this
sun. invested will cover all losses and
expenses. In my opinion it will amply
1 I do so and should further provide sub
stantial dividends to be returned to the
policy holders.
j The only opposition that has develop!
ed against our insurance business, ex>
j cept the natural opposition of insurI
ance companies and insurance officials,
has come from a few, a very few,
school officials who preferred that their
rural school buildings be Insured in
. their county Mutual insurance com|
panies. It is true that the rate charged
k | in uiese muLUiii cumpuiucs is mui i
, lower than the rate charged by this
I commis and it is also true that
I j mutual _or??panies will continue to levy
| an annual assessment on their policy
, i holders while in a very few years the
, institutions insured by this commisjSion
will be getting their insurance
I | absolutely free of cost. The Mutual
r companies do not and cannot hold out
iany such inducement us that.
The attorney general has held that
, 'all policies on public schools in Mutual
J Insurance Companies will be consider-1
. ed as expired on the date on which
m Mutual Companies assess their annual
, premium. These policies must be
. placed with this commission on the
,'dale on which they expire.
The present year will probably prove
, j the most profitable of any since the
i | work was inaugurated and I hope to
- j have a policy in force on every school j
: j building in the state that is worth in- ;
suring, by the first of January.
j Bachelors Beware!?Five thousand
> well-to-do British women determined
11 to obtain American husbands soon will
; | arrive in the United States, according I
I to a warning: issued to bachelors by <
,' Mrs. S. C. Seymour, of Camden. X. J.,
I j who has just returned from Europe.
Mrs. Seymour was employed by the j
: military authorities to supervise the
i transportation of the war brides of
American soldiers in different parts i
ft Europe. She announced the matrimonial
army of invasion had already
; applied for passports and would arrive
as soon as the present restrictions
are lifted, which is expected to be soon.
During her eight months abroad
l Mrs. Seymour arranged for the |
transportation of 3,M)0 war brides and j
1257 children. I 1
#
ONE HUNDRED MILLION
Rev. 0. L. Jones Looks For Big
Oversubscription. .
ALL GOOD BAPTISTS MEASURE UP
Many Churches Have Already Begun
to Test Their Faith?Liberal Gifts
From Men Who Are Able?Humble
Members Show Zeal?Indian Chief
Takes Prominent Part.
Many remarkable facts are being
brought to light by the Publicity Department
of the big Baptist drive /or
75 Million Dollars, both of local and
crunrr'il nof 11 ro nnrt immVi I n cr t Vi o nrt.
vance and movement of religious activities
of a world-wide nature. It
in announced hy Rev. O. L. Jones, of
Cldver, organiser of this work In York
county that reports come from every
corner of the Southern Baptist Convention
indicating that tho 75 Million
Dollar goal will bo over-subscribed
during Victory Week, Nov. 30 to Dec.
7, it being the general belief among
leaders in all the *18 states that the j
subscription will exceed $100,000,000.
Mr. Jones gives the following gleanings
from reports that have been given
out during the last week as expressing
the general awakening of the
Baptist conscience throughout the
south, and typifying the spirit of
earnestness and sacrifice that characterizes
the campaign activities everywhere:
The assignments of quotas to> the
24,884 Baptist churches in the Southern
Baptist Convention was made on
the basis ~f a total of $75,000,000. If
every church raises the quota assigned,
the total will be that amount. In
hundreds of cases, churches have been
dissatisfied with the smallness of the
quota and have raised the figure voluntarily
from 10 to 50 per cent. Not
only so, but in scores of churches representing
every state, the members
have not been willing to wait until
Victory Week to actually take their
subscriptions and have forged ahead
and taken the subscriptions. In not
a single case of the many that have
done this, has the total failed to show
an over-subscription, ranging from 10
per cent, to 40 per cent, more than the
church was asked to subscribe.
Johnson OwL leading Cherokee Indian*
of the in North C?ro'
lina. who was recently converted to
the Christian religion, Is the first Indian
to vblunteer for special mlssion|
ary work under the influence of the
^ Baptist 75 Million Campaign.
At a recent training school for
! workers, held in the disternmost district
of North Carolina, following an
I earnest talk by one of the attferuants,
on the need of 5,000 volunteers for
1 the ministry and missionary work, a
; prayer was offered that God would
' then and there call out from among
! the number present several special
workers.
Johnson Owl joined in the prayer
as follows: "Dear Jesus, I have seen |
thy light from heaven and it is beau- \
tlful. But it shines on a broad hur- j
vest field in which is much ripe grain, |
j but the grain is falling down and be- I
I ing wasted for lack of laborers. Therefore
I volunteer and go now into the
! field to gather grain for Thee."
I Five other young men and three
young women volunteered for the
; world-wide field at the same time.
Another large gift to the Baptist 75
| Million Campaign comes from Texas
j in the form of a $50,000 contribution
0 T r* N* Uoiiotrtn V? i
i lruni u. v. oinuiiug, \jl uvuoiui . *?.
E. Burt of that city has given $15,000,
M. II. Wolfe, of Dallas, $100,000, while
under the terms of the will of the
late W. H. Thomas, of Dallas the cam|
paign receives $1,000,000 from his esI
tate. The Waynesboro, Ga., church
with a membership of 275, has acceptI
ed a quota of $83,000, or practically
| $300 per capita, while Mr. and Mrs.
: James E. Sheehan, of Crawford, Ga.,
give $25,000.
Here is how the $12,000,000 allotted
the Home Mission Board of Southern
I Baptist Convention by the Baptist 75
Million Campaign for the next Ave
years is to be expended:
Co-operative missions in which wori:
is done jointly with other agencies,
$1,200,000; gifts to much-needed new
buildings throughout the south, $3,250,000;
enlarging church building
loan fund, $625,000; promoting evangelism,
$1,000,000; promoting the de|
velopment of weak churches, $777,- I
mill- mountain snhnnl and other school 1
Iwoik. $1,100,000; work among foreigners,
negroes and Indians, $1,100,000;
work in Cuba, $797,000; work In Pana-'
ma, $76,000; work among soldiers,
sailors and marines, $200,000; enlargement
and endowment of Southern '
Baptist Sanatorium at El Paso, $1,- ,
00o,000; and other work, $625,000.
From 1S45 to 1911 missionaries of1
the Home Board baptized 247,000 converts,
or one convert for every $23 |
paid to home missions, while from 1911 j
to 1919 the home missionaries bap- I
tized 276,000 converts, or one for every
$15 given to home missions.
To help carry out the enlarged for- j
eign mission program a minimum of
45 7 workers is asked by the Foreign
Mission Board, while practically twice
that number of workers is the aim of
the Home Mission Board which needs
missionaries, evangelists and teachers
in missionary and mountain
schools. There are between 3,000 j
and 5,000 pastorless Baptist churches I ]
within the bounds of the Convention, i
700 of these being located in Texas, i
| alone, and if these churches are to
i he supplied with pastors the nymber
I of ministers must be greatly increased.
10 the five-year program Invplved jn
the 75 Million Campaign is matched
with enough workers to carry it out
there must be a minimum of 5,000
additional workers enlisted during the
next five years.
Of the 1,000,000 people residing in
Florida 750,000 are without church affiliations,
according to an announcement
by the Baptist 75 Million Campaign.
Of the 700 Baptist churches
in that state 300 are homeless and one
uundred worship in very dilapidated
buildings. However, 111 houses of
worship are under course of construe- ,
tion in that state and it is antlclpata#
/IftrnmInoHnr, will
cu me laima ui mc uc>tviuiit??k?wii ??
be greatly strengthened there as a result
of the campaign.
From a small town in Georgia comes
the news of a Baptist widow who had
saved up $20 in gold to apply toward
her funeral expenses when she passed
away and who has become so
heartened by the Baptist 75 Million
Campaign that she now wants to live
a good while longer. So trusting in
God to spare her life she has contributed
that gold?all her savings
from several years?to the campaign.
From a veteran of the Cross, eightytwo
years old, Dr. S. B. Rogers, director
of the Baptist 75 Million Campaign
for Fiorida, has received the following
Ifetter:
"This is the day of prayer for the
75 Million Campaign and the day of y
prater for' the advancement of Christ's
Kingdom in the world. It should be,
the day to contribute In a substantial
way to the great cause. I have been
praying for It since the organization, '
but last 'night I /prayed all night. I
could not think how 'I could give anything
to the cause. I air eighty-tw5
years old, poor and afflicte 1, but about
daybreak this morning I remembered
I owned 120 acre? of land valued at
$720 so I asked God why I could not
give it. Well, I decided at once to give
it. Now, I ask you to whom and' hoyv
I shall make the deed?" i .. -J
When Thanksgiving Day' rolls
around this year you will want to give
thanks that you have never been HI
in China and compelled to take a doqa
of Chinese medicine. ? >
Dr. George W. Leavell, medical missionary
at Canton, China who Is now
on a leave^of absencj In this country
T6r"lUl LlllFffclllJI1 lil1 W)hn'* Hotflcina
University and who has delivered several
addresses in behalf of the Baptist
75 Million Campaign, relates how
a Chinese physician, called in to see
a very sick and wealthy patient, prescribed
the /ollowing, which it required
more than a half day to prepare:
.... ;
Two ounces of salted lizards, one
halt ounce of Korea ginseng root. *1*
dried grasshoppers?three male and
three female?one ounce sweet
leaves, one ounce walnuts, one-fourth
ounce lotus leaves, one-half ounce of
rattlesnake tail, two ounces black
dates, one half ounce elm tree bark,
one-half ounce devil tlsh claws, onehali
ounce hartshorn, one-half ounce
bird claws, one-half ounce dried gin- ger
and one-half ounce old coffin nails.
This was to be boiled In a gallon
of water until reduced to a great ,
thickness and then given the patient
in large quantities.
As an evidence of the love which ?
Dr. Lea veil has for his work he recently
declined an offer of $15,000 a
year with a fine residence and other
appurtenances to do social relief work
in China, preferring medical missions
at a salary of one-seventh of what he
was offered.
Indications are that the Baptist 75
VXillinn Pnmnaisrn will establish a
record of being the most economically '
conducted drive for a large sum of
money that has been made in this
country, Dr. L. R. Scarborough, general
director, announces, it belngT H&ib'
assured that the expense will be considerably
less than 1 per cent, of the
sum asked. This sum includes the
expenses incurred by the general headquarters
at Nashville a 1 the eighteen '
state headquarters as well.
Aiding in the effort to keep down
campaign expenses in order that all
the money raised may go toward the
purpose for which it is sought is the
fact that the campaign 1? of short
duration, no large overhead cost has
been incurred in the payment of large
salaries, and many of the workers
are contributing their services without
any financial remuneration.
Evidencing the spirit of the campaign,
one of the prominent workers
has just declined an offer of >25,000
a year to engage in work along an*
11 ? * ?I ? II,.a An n
Oiner nne, pieiciiiug ?.u
spiall fraction of that amount in order
to give himself entirely to religious
work.
? Fire of unknown origin destroyed
Friday night the officers' quarters of
the United States public health service
hospital at Camp Sevier. The building
wa3 one of the largest in the camp.
Several of the medical officers lost all
of their personal effects and many lost
a part of their personal belongings.
Good work on the part of the firemen
probably saved the entire hospital from
flames.
? Rev. James R. Williams, pastor of
New Prospect, Chestnut Ridge, Landford
and Langston Baptist churches in '
Laurens county has resigned. He will
?o to a new field in Spartanburg
county.
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